Excellence in Design Award 2010-SolidWorks to Inventor

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by vrivey

I am interpreting the rules for the Excellence in Design Award to mean that you can NOT submit for this award unless it is in Inventor files.

Does anyone else see it that way?

Our team has been using Solidworks since day one for digital prototyping and we didn't realize since Autodesk was sponsoring this award that we would HAVE to use their programs. The details didn't come out until Kick-off and none of our team members know Inventor. This doesn't seem fair to all the teams (esp. some threads that I have read saying that some states may even be excluded from this "contest").

Does anyone have any help with how to convert SolidWorks 2009 files to Inventor 2010? We only have 3 weeks until this submission, so we want to see if it is even worth the try to take the time to convert everything.

When a company puts up money to sponsor an award it seems that they have to have a reason, making thousands familiar with their product is a pretty good reason IMHO. In fact, letting you use SW is counterproductive. So, while I agree that I prefer SW over Inventor, Autodesk put up the money so they run the show. Gotta love that don'tcha?

Now, just to clear this up, these rules were released a couple weeks before Kickoff.

As for converting them, from SW export as a STEP file and import into Inventor that way. Not the prettiest or nicest but sure beats redoing everything.